My Last 2013 Complaints

So, December is a bad month for me since my mom passed in 2011. I admit it’s a weird feeling, because I still for the most part enjoy all the gatherings and the way the days get chilly — though, having some deep winter weather before fall was even over this year got old fast. But there is just a little part of me that hates it all. Hates it because my mom isn’t there. But I know she wouldn’t want me to hibernate and refuse to see people, so I go, and I host, and everyone really is wonderful. I haven’t had any holiday spirit in the three holiday seasons since she died. It’s a bit of a shame because I have some holiday music I like to listen to.

But then, the external hard drive I bought when I bought my MacBook Pro died and took all my Daz Studio content with it. At some point I will be posting some renders here, just as a place to share them where people don’t have to be members to see them *cough*Renderosity*cough*. Anyway, I go out and get a drive that holds 4 times as much, get half my content back on it, and then that one dies. WtF? Go and exchange that one and start over. It just feels like I have spent a lot of time rebuilding my content library.

Our dryer died. I can’t really complain since it lasted 17 years and was really undersized for the work we have been making do. I had been wanting to get a new washer and dryer for a couple years, but they stubbornly kept working. So we had a couple of days with wet and damp clothes lying around and I went out and got new ones. They work really well, though I’m still wondering if I am making the most efficient use of the various cycles they have.

There were a couple of days spent cleaning for the goose dinner we host every year. The dinner itself was one of the smaller ones we have ever had. Made it easier to handle than the one that was twice as big. We did really well, getting almost all of the prep work done the night before so we just had to put things on to heat and cook.

I had a birthday.

And New Year’s was spent with a couple of friends, some great food and drink, a fun game of Cards Against Humanity, and my yearly Happy New Year wish to the people who live across the street.